Romantic Era Literature / Past & Present
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A 9 page research paper and comparison of Romantic literature authors, with focus on Mary Shelley, Edith Wharton, Anne Rice and Fannie Flagg. The paper posits that not only did the earlier writers influence the later writers, but that all reject the cannonical view of women's roles of their times and politicize the role of female authorship. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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The Undead Dead in 'Usher' and 'Gracchus'
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A 6 page paper analyzing the way Edgar allan poe and Franz Kafka deal with the subject of the dead who will not die. The stories compared are Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' and Kafka's 'The Hunter Gracchus.' No additional sources are listed.
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Keats and Garrison; a Comparison
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This 5 page paper compares and contrasts the styles of two poets John Keats 'La Belle Da Mesans Merci' and Deborah Garrison's 'She Was Waiting To Be Told'. The ways in which the poems are similar and contrast is discussed using phrases from each to demonstrate the observations made. The bibliography cites 2 sources.
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Human Happiness & Passion / Montaigne To Mill
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A 14 page paper that utilizes the literature of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries to represent common perspectives about the themes of human happiness, love, passion, and the human condition during varying times in European history. Descartes, Hegel, Hume, Keats, & Marx are among the many authors discussed. Bibliography lists 16 sources.
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Perkins' 'The Yellow Wallpaper' & Ibsen's 'Doll House'
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In this 6 page essay, the writer compares social oppressions as they relate to the wives in each of these two stories. In each story, the wife was expected to look up to her husband as an 'Ideal-maker'--yet each author uses different techniques and secondary characters to illustrate this point. No Bibliography.
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The Art of Detection in Crispin, Christie, & Carr
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A 5 page paper examining the way these three authors -- and their detectives -- purport to involve the reader in the solution of the crimes but in fact deflect his attention from the very clues he needs. Novels covered are Agatha Christie's The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, John Dickson Carr's The Emperor's Snuff Box, and Edmund Crispin's The Moving Toyshop. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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The 'Feminine Principle' In Four Multicultural Authors
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A 6 page paper looking at the strength of the woman's perspective in four works from all over the world: James Joyce's 'Araby,' Chinua Achebe's 'Things Fall Apart,' Ding Ling's 'When I Was in Xia Village,' and Pramoedya Ananta Toer's 'Inem'. The paper concludes that of those stories discussed, the female principle is strongest in Achebe's African story because his women seem to have the strongest support system and strongest sense of self. Bibliography lists two sources.
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Anachronism Of Marriage In The Works Of Lord Byron & Samuel Butler
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A 6 page essay that looks at two works from each author, Don Juan and The Way of All Flesh respectively, in regards to their opinions on marriage with references from each book.
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Hierarchical Thinking In Dracula & 'The Most Dangerous Game'
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A 5 page paper on Bram Stoker's Dracula and Richard Connell's 'The Most Dangerous Game.' The writer notes that both stories involve a man who, whether out of hunger or for sport, hunts down human beings to destroy them, and analyzes the presence of such hierarchical behavior throughout both works. Bibliography lists three sources including the works themselves.
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Frankenstein's Creature and the Bible's Adam
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A seven page paper comparing these two famous creations in terms of their creators' intentions and reactions toward them. The paper concludes that whereas God loved his creation despite the fact that Adam sinned, Frankenstein hated his Creature who had done nothing wrong at all. Bibliography lists eight sources.
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The Conflict Between The Notion Of Public Interest & Private Interest
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7 pages in length. The author uses 'The Federalist Papers', John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty', Margaret Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale', and Derrick Bell's 'Faces at the Bottom of the Well' to discuss the notion of conflict between public interest and private interest. Addresses question of whether public interest is more important than private interest, vice versa, or -- are both public and private interest equally important. No bibliography.
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Aristotle & The Tragedy of the Uncommon Man
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A 5 page paper analyzing the concept of tragedy as defined by Aristotle (and illustrated in Sophocles' Oedipus the King) and Arthur Miller's definition of the form (as described in his essay 'The Tragedy of the Common Man' and illustrated in Death of a Salesman). Bibliography lists one source.
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